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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S, D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 187(5.
VOL. II. NO. 48.
TIMELY TOPICS.
LATEST NEWS.
Tiik centennial tauml of finance cm* | noi'tii ani> wi'.«t.
vcrjr fortunate that there | Tri „i; „f ,,„ r tiea i„,liete,l lor connee
Trill enljr hea deBcleneyor H,5110,000 to |i0 „ wUh „ 10 Mo „ mnill Mea.luw in,..were
la. made up fn.m vlaltora. Aa it will. eoiniueneu n k nih at Reaver, Utah, early thin
only require 3,000,000 paving visitors to , mouth.
produce thin sum tlu* Iward in probably j Robert W. Estlin, a well-known cotton
justified in rejoicing, for the exhibition
tan hardly fall to attract at leant that
number. Vienna had 7,000,000, Paris,
in 1807, had 10,000,000 and the British
exposition, in 1802, 0,000,000. It will
depend somewhat on the railway fares,
however.
tiH'rcImnt of New Orleans, suieiileil, Sunday,
by jumping into the river from a ferryboat.
General Howard, of Whitehall, South
t'lirolinn, whs murdered by negroes on the
sixteenth of April. Robbery was the oh-
jeet.
A firs at Versailles, Woodford county,
Kv., Sunday, destroyed Harrison .lohnstou’s
“ Tiik most popular fashionable aflecta- "• r "l«°uso ««"» b « rr ‘ ,|H «'hta-
tion ” savs the New York Gazette by, valued at $75,000 mid insured for $33 per
" among young ladies rarenous for social | Hrn
notoriety is the * Flornda cough,* which
is regarded by those who have been
abroad as a tine substitute for ‘ Roman
malaria, 1 so fashionable a lew years ago.
The southern malady ta sup|K)»ed to Is*
contracted silting on the piazza of a
Magnolia or Jacksonville hotel, flirting
and eating oranges alternately. Thuso
who have never tas'ii near either place
uflor dreadfully from the disease.”
To Ik* a San Francisco aristocrat one
must ho r member nf the Stock board, whicli
is composed of just one hundred members.
Rut the select hundred are not disposed to
let in (lie vulgar herd. The price of a seat
has gone up from $211,000 last year till $35,-
000 was offered Inst week in vain.
A Texas sheep raiser says there Ih
about two million head of sheep on the bord
ers of the Rio Grande—the finest sheep-rais
ing country in the world, Ilo has imported
some of these to Ids own rancho, and he says
I that in two years the clippings wilfnet him
Tiik school euiKwintcndent of Port- Mxty-five cents per head, which, together
land, Oregon, touches a grievous abuse with the increase of stocks, will yield him a
when he says in his re|*ort: " One ol i handsome revenue. On llio Nonces and
the crying evils of the day is the horde ! Frio,river* there are about seven hundred
of text-books, succeeding each other j Rml flfl - v thousand sheep, from which the
like OoU,» ami Vi.ii.IhIs; rorlw of Rl ,„ K . "’"tm,,lion »HI bo,roily for msrkvl.
rnphip., grn.nnu.rH And aritbmoMi'*, ‘six | A New Orlcnns invent.>r<')iiim^tli,‘(H'r-
ilrrp 1 and graded until gradation in „ J f.oUonof» l...«l nll.rly .■..n.lr.udrd .villi
mi.non.or. W,. ndvneale ,.f ,)„. ! » dm.ldv «l,i,d, ..111 permit il.r.larn
,, , . , , , , : up stream with hut little resistance from the
so-called oral svztein, and lieliuvc tli«r-| , , ...... ,,. , , ,
• . 'current. \\ it h this advantage, he proposes
ouglily in good text-books in the bands t „carry wh ,. nt frolll CaJro New <> r |,
of good teachers; but the schools of the | three its a bushel so soon ns (’apt. ads
whole land aro now at the mercy of the ! secures a channel below sufficiently deep for
publishcra, whoso interest requires the foreign vessels to reach the hitter city. The
most books at the highest price for the w York Commercial nml Financialf’liron-
least number of children. ! ido ’T""*" favorably of thu project, and re
I gnrds the problem of making New Orleans a
great exporting point for breadatufls as al>
Milan has made arrangements for the r ,. n ,| v H «dved.
rngnlnr prat-tiro of mnmtlon, the Hull,nr- , mllch talkw , „ r (r l|mt „, In
.tic I.HV.ng (aii.M'd a “ pyre In Imorclnd i (, lrnllR ,,
... llm p.ll.lm rompU'ry for flic nw nf | ionite Yiaulmrg l..t wrok I
those who desire—and can afford—to : tho shortest ever known «<> have occurred in
avail themselves of It. The pyre ia the the valley of the river. The distance around
invention of two Milanese professors, ami the head or newly formed hike is about live
is so constructed thut ill a tew hours the j “die", *»d die newly nindr channel flows
remains can l»c reduced to a handful of ' *° ftH ‘° h{r ' k '' thv ‘•‘wtcrrt^hore near-
aal.rn, and ll,at wit makiag a„v din '* " 1 1 1 “. t, " 1 !"l 01v , 11 "’ 7"""'';"
, ,. . . • pari of the city. It is likely that tlu
agreeable spectacle or disseminating any : c(Wl of lhi(1 fr , llU of lho riv ,. r on Vicksburg
smoke or odor. The apparatus is in the , w|U , H! u , ohan|{B „, c | HIH ,| ng fvr ,p. nni j, 0Hlh
form of the ancient Roman sarcophagus, ! a point somewhat lower than iHi
within which is a receptacle for the tasly, j that is, if the lake ever fills 1*4, with sand
ll|Kin which upwards ol five hundred bars, so as to make the water too shont for
lighted gas jets aro turned, and kept them lo ascend to flic present landing point,
ablaze until it is reduced to ashes. I ' n, “ nr,M ‘ of ,hn nuwl >' f**rnie.l island oppo-
I situ the city is less than 3000 acres. Last
I August, when a survey was made, Ihe dis-
I ill. great increase of intcm|»craiiec in tanru across the narrow neck of the pcuiii-
England during the last few years is suln was U51 feet. The engineers then ealeu
causing unusual effort on the part of j Inted that the cut would make through and
Christians of all denominations for its I Vicksburg would he left on the margin of
Huppremlnn. • Tins blaliop of I.lcli field, III BBWly mtd« lake.,. Il.„eal.,a,l .1,1,1.
a recent public meeliug, said that I ,,,,rv l,rt - They were ol eoani. ■llgl.lly mis
■ , . .. ,. taken us to the time,
drunkenness was eating up the vitality -
of religion, and the life and health of the ' r.aar.
nation.” A conference of the Churrh The New York Indies who are ondeav-
of England Temperance Society, which 1 "ring to secure for shop-women the privilege
has been unusually active of late was \ "Rtlng down when their dutieii do not re-
held in i.iverjHH.I* .lauuary 13. ’ Tim I'l" ir » In Mand, prop™, lr.oiifr.rrollii.li
Y„rk a, II,er prominent | ""'"7"* U«>*> «M.ka.p.
' , ,, ers who comply with iL
ministers of the church made addresses.
as stated that during the past s
h the money spent in buying liqti
increason 1 from XI 10,000,000 jkt a
i to XI 10,000,000.
UK emigration from Ireland is
■er what it was ten or fifteen or twi
inply with iL
The reduction in New York rents gen-
! erally is one-quarter, hut high priced build-
j tag* suffer u much greater depreciation. The
greater part of the Aslor house being now
i fitted for offices bear two large signs "to let,"
I and there arc morn "offices" now in the
i market than ever before. In the fashionable
; suburbs the depreciation is still greater for
' i the gentry are unnhlc to go out of town an
ty years a K „. little more than fif- Many India, are lcar„l., B t„ make
ly tl.ut,.and |s rs,,n emlgrausl last year, , thvlr „wn dr,-roc., nail II,a proi.ro l.revori-
and the premises is that this year the 1 ly felt among the modistes.
t» ti ii»1k* r will Ik- even less-less than in j Gov. Rice, of .Massachusetts, has vc-
any year since 1858. This shows that, tned the hill legalizing the marriage of Mr.
the situation of the people is improving, -tamea Farton with his step-daughter
that the evils of oyer iMipuhition have 1 kmnnd of
Iks-ii alleviated by the vast emigration
•if the past quarter of a century. It in-
whieh is funded. Thu khedive’s personal
debt is secured on lands which ho holds by
virtue of his official position, and is really
part of the public debt of Egypt. As En
gland is thu largest creditor of Egypt, and,
according to MoCave’a statement, the khe-
divc is in no condition to pay, thu ehnncosof
foreclosure scum good. After that willcomo
Rritish control, and that is the reason En
gland seems so listless about the Turkish
quustion.
The cable linea Itctwcen Nova Scotia
and Newfoundland, and connecting with the
Atlantic cables at Heart’s Content, aro
broken, and consequently communication
with Europe by the Anglo-American lino is
temporarily interrupted. A fault was dis-
red in the French cable, two hundred
s from Brest, some time ago, which
not been repaired. The Enited Stales
rt cable i^working, and is mow the only
line open to thu public, hut measure* will
he taken to repair the onblo between Nova
Scotia and Newfoundland, and it is hoped
that the interruption of communication with
enrt’s Content will not he of long enutin-
Tho London Times, the Lancet,, and
other Kugl ish journals nppoar to he really
alarmed about the continued approach of the
plague. The disease tins been absent from
England and the continent of Europe for
more than IM) years, and from its once fa
vorite haunts in Egypt, Syria, and Mcanpo-
* for about 40 years. During the last
two years, the disease has appeared now and
again in villages on the lower Euphrates,
and it has now broken out at llillnh, and
vrral severe cases have occurred at Rag-
d. The recent outbreaks have shown no
diminution of the old virulence, and in the
opinion of the Times there can he little
doubt, when the present state of commercial
communication is considered, that tho mala
dy may soon he convoyed from Bagdad to
the Levant. Fnriu the Levant it might he
easily passed to Europe, and even to the
shore of England. The plague was last prev
alent in Bagdad in 1831-3(1, and it is believed
that between lire 28th of March and the ‘JOtli
nf April, 1831, not less than 00,000 persons
fell victims to the disense among a popula
tion estimated at a 130,000.
niN<!KM,ANr.O|IN.
Tho letter carrier syHtrm in to l>e abol
ished soon in all towns and cities hnving
less than 40,000 inhabitants. Postmaster’s
salaries will lie reduced in the aggregate
$780,000 a year, and mails paid for hy space
and speed. Thu total reductions in the pos
tal hill will amount to $1,250,000.
Petroleum has risen to the (rosiHon of
our third great staple for export, following
i;ottyn and IJour in importaiioo. At fine time
the petroleum Industry became very stag
nant on account of overproduction, hut now
tho uses to which it can lie put all over the
world have greatly multiplied, and there is
unprecedented activity in the crude article
and the resulting volatile oils. The Titus-
villu Herald reports the number of produc
ing wells at 3,(525 - more than were ever be
fore operated at nuy one lime. 'Die ship*
incuts now averagettO.OOO barrels a day.
Tho recent decision hy the United
Hbites supreme court in the Arkansas Hot
Springs ease in favor of the government pro
vidcs Uncle Klim w ith property valued at
$10,000,000. The tract Is claimed hy ex-
Governor Hector. It contains a large popu
lation and the celebrated Hot SpringN. The
east- has been in litigation twenty-five years,
and two o( the litigants have been pocketing
$20,000 n year each out df the property for
ten years. The Hectors have not made up
their mind to abandon thu fight for the bo-
P0ST0FFK i; STATISTICS.
diraw-s pcrhnps more that tho had times
In this country have discouraged intend
ing emigrants from crossing the ocean.
'The steamship lines between here and
Europe are either making no money or
losing money. They feel tho loss fif the
passage money of emigrants. The con*
tonial will he a yoar remarkable for the
small addition of foreigners made to our
population.
At the last census in Wales and Eng
land of persons engaged in manufactur
ing |sittery tho number of people so oc
cupied was found to bo about 4fi, 122; of
these 29,1 fill were males and 10,903
females. Among the males the mortality
was no less than thirty-eight per cent,
higher than the average death rate for
the males of the whole community above
the age of fifteen years, and the increase
principally .-bowed itself in carrying off
men) in the prime of life, say thirty-five
year- of age. The climate Wring good,
the wages fair and the workmen fairly
temperate and cleanly, nevertheless the
[sitters were |*>or in physique. Now, re
lated chemical analyses of the honour
lungs have shown that the silica is absent
a-* a normal constituent of these organs.
Prof. Church having, however, inciner
ated the lungs of a potter, found that
there existed in the ash left the amazing
amount of forty-eight per cent, of silica,
eighteen per cent, of alumiaand five per
cent, of oxide of iron. This showed to
what an enormous extent finely divided
being constantly breathed by
iiNlitntinnnli'v.
, khortly after the cclchrntion of his Miin-
Michusetts Marriage, quietly went over to
New York with the lady ynd had the cere
mony performed again, the veto of Gov.
Hire will not interfere with his domestic
happiness.
The revolt in Algeria has been com
pletely subdue 1. Tho lenders have been
raptured and are held ns hostages for the
conduct of their tribes.
Disraeli is taring attacked on all sides.
The royal titles hill made him very unpopu
lar, and now he is getting well nagged about
that promised release of the Feniuri priso
ners hy the "empress."
Through the efforts of tho cmjs r.
the Brazils, slavery in that country will prob
ably disappear within a few years, a
having passed five years ago providing that
a]l children of sluves horn after that
should he free. Dom Pedro has eioani
ted his own slnves.
Austria is the least prepared for
of any of the F.uropenu powers. Her a
merit is defective, but in the course of the
year her troops arc to he armed with
rifles, and her field artillery are to have the
" steel-bronze" guns which have recently
been tested with favorable results at Kpi
dan. in Prussia.
Brussels lias the largest ice house
the world. The roof covers an arcanf$1»,.
000 square feet. The walls are double, and
filled with moss and saw-dust. There
nine separate ice chambers, each of 30,000
cubic feet capacity. There are galleries foi
storing meat in hot weather, capable of hold
mg 2,000 quarters. A million tons of ict
have been stored in the building at one
An Alexandria dispatch says that the
khedive’s private estate lias been adjudged
liable to execution. The Dairn property
A very interesting table of statistics
has recently been sent to the senate from
the poKtoflice department, showing the
receipt a and expenditures at diflcrrut
I tost offices in the country for the year
1873. The largest receipts are, of course,
from the New York tswlofliee, which
were last year nearly $3,000,000. Tho
excuses were twenty-seven porccut. of
the receipts. Philadelphia conies next,
Boston next, (’llicago next, and St. l/ouis
fifth. Thu following table represents the
principal offices of the country:
CONGRESSIONAL
In the aeiiato, on the 28th, legislative
liiisiuess was suspended at 12:30 and (lie im
peachment trial resumed. Mr. Carpenter,of
counsel for tho necusoil, addressed the sen
ate. He charged Unit the managers were
attempting to manage the ease on both sides
It was not tho Intention of counsel to uiiiiho
any unncecssnry delay, hut they had prior
professional engagements, and had not vet
had time to prepare themselves for arguing
thu question of jurisdiction. He asked that
the matter hqdelayed for two weeks from
to-day, and they would then ask no further
postponement.” After further argument,
Mr. Gonkling submitted an order that the
senate proceed first to hear and determine
the question whether \V. \V. Belknap, llm
respondent, Is a men able to trial hy ii>.-
praehment for acts done as secretary of war,
notwithstanding his resignation of said office.
The senate then retired.to consider thu or
der as submitted by Mr. Gonkling. At -1:10
the senators returned to the chamber, mid
the presiding officer. Mr. Berry, announced
that several orders had been agreed upon,
which were read hy the clerk, as follows: t.
Ordered that the senate proceed first to hear
and determine tho question whether \V. W.
Belknap is amendable to Dial hy impeach
ment for nets done as secretary of war, not
withstanding Ids resignation id said office,
and that the managers and counsel in siieli
arguments, dismiss the question whether the
issues of the fuel are material, and whether
tIm matters in support of the jurisdiction al
leged hy the house of representatives, in the
pleadings subsequent to the articles of im
peachment, can lie those alleged, if the niiiiio
are not averred in said nrtieles. 2. Ordered;
that the hearing proceed on the -llh of May
that llm opening and close of tho argument
he given to respondent; Hint three .counsel
ami three managers may lie heard in such
order ns may he agreed on between them
selves, and thut such time ho allowed for ar
gument as the managoni and counsel may
desire. Afier argument hy Messrs. Hoar
and Garpfutcr, the NCnntO sitting as ii court
nf impeachment adjourned until Monday.
In tho raimto. on tho tat, tho resolu
tion submitted hy Mr. Hamlin Friday last to
amend the rules in relation to impeachment
trials so iin to provide that deliberation on
questions submitted shall lie in public, was
(IlseusHud hut no action taken and the im
peachment trial was resumed. The pend
ing question was the motion of Mr. McDon
ald to rescind tho order agreed upon in the
conference Friday, allowing respondent to
open arguments, etc. Tile presiding ollleer
sMcd the motion to rescind the vote hy
which thu order of argument was made was
overruled, ami that the request of the mana
gers that four of them he allowed to addrcsH
the senate on the question of jurisdiction
had been granted. Thu court of impcnch-
nient then adjourned until Thursday. Mr.
Roiitwcll introduced a hill authorizing tho
secretary of the treasury to renew the issue
of fractional currency, providing the total
amount outstanding at nuy one time shall
not exceed $50,000,000. Referred. Mr. Sar
gent called up his resolution in regard to
Ghincfte immigration, and made an address
in favor thereof. At the conclusion of Mr.
Sargent’s speech, discussion bustled, pend-
••*'«**
In tho Mcnalo, on tho 2nd., a hill ap
propriating $50,000 for siilislslcnee supplies
for the Apache Indians in Arizona and for
the removal of llm Iiidiiins of the Ghoriii-
liua agency to Han Carlos agency. I'assetI.
After the introduction of various hills, the
resolution of Mr. Hamlin to amend tin- rules
sons to provide that the deliberations of the
senate mi impeachment trials shall In! in
public was taken up and discussed until the
expiration of the morning hour, when it was
laid aside and the consideration of the hill
in relation to the Japanese indemnity fund
was resinned. Bonding llm dlsditsslon the
chair laid before the senate ii message fr<
Ihe president of the United Stales inclosing
the report of the centennial eouiiiiissioii and
inviting the two houses of congress to lie
present at the opening ceremonies on the
lOili Inst. Ordered printed and lie on the
table. After executive session Ihe senate
adjourned.
In tho Hcnuto nn tho 3rd, after nqxirta
from various committees were received, Mr.
Morton arose to iniiku a pursoual explana
tion. lie sent to the clerk's desk and had
read a Washington dispatch to llifl New York
World, in regard to $250,(MX) received by him
from the general government while lie
governor of liidinmi, out of an appropriation
of $2,000,000 to pay the expenses of transpor
tation and delivery of arms, etc,, to loyal
citizens in the slates in rebellion, lie I lien
make a lengthy statement in
the jx.tt?r, and was evidently the ciuse of j ,|,jbt in valued ut from sixty million to .
t'ae |ireoi»ture death, | euty-five million dollar., about nnc-linlf of
While Chicago stands fourth on the
list of receipts, she is but a few thousand
dollars below Boston or Philadelphia,
and more than double that of 8t. Ixmis.
New York, of course, stands alone. Bos
ton, Philadelphia and Chicago belong to
the same group of cities whose receipts
exceed $900,000. St. Louis, Cincinnati,
and Baltimore belong to a group yielding
more than $335,000 and less than $450,-
000 of receipts. Pittsburg, Cleveland,
New Orleans, Detroit and Broolflvn be
long to the fourth category. Peoria
stands at the head of the Illinois cities of
the second class. San Francisco docs not
appear in the table..
proceeded
defeii
riKid examination nf Iiih official
In the senate, on the 4th, Mr. Morrill
[Me.] presented a concurrent resolution I lint
congress mlioiiru from Tuesday to Friday ol
next week to attend the opening of the ecu
14ii n In I exhibition at I’liilndclnhiii. Aflci
discussion it was laid over ami tin- impeach
ment trial resinned. Mr. Itluir, for respond
cut. opened tho argument on the question of
jurisdiction, quoting at length from the
Blount ease. ID- denied tier power of the
senate to try on nrtieles of impeachment pri
vate citizens. When Mr. Blair eomriuded Iris
argument, the senate look a recess for fifteen
iiiimites. The Emilia mine investigation is
declared closed. Upon reassembling Mana
ger Lord replied to 1 lie argument of Mr.
Blair, lie asserted that the senate had juris
diction in the ease, and in Mipoorl of Ins po
sition cited numerous legal authorities,
When Mr. ta.rd concluded, the senate, sit
ting as a court of iiiipcaehiiieiil, adjourned
until to-morrow and tin:consideration of leg
islative business was resumed, after which
the senate adjourned.
In the senate, on the 5th, the house
resolution accepting the invitation to attend
the opening ceremonies of the centennial ex
hibition and providing that when the tw<
houses adjourn on the Oth inst. it he to meet
on the 12th, was, after dismission, adopted.
Consideration of the artielesof impeachment
was then resumed ami Mr. Carpenter, for re
spondent, began his argument on the ques
tion of. jurisdiction. At 2 o’clock the senate
took a recess. After recess Mr. Carpenter
resumed and finished his argument, lie was
followed hy Mr. Knott in behalf of the man
agers. The senate sitting as a court of im
peachment, adjourned until to-morrow. The
-ral house hills In appropriate eommittee
jodrned.
IIOUMK.
In the house, on the 28th, permisHion
was given the managers of the Relkmq
peach me nt to examine us witnesses on
trial any members of the committee oi
pemlitiircs iji the war department f »r
members of the house whose testimony they
may deem requisite. The house then
voted on the amendments to the#legis
lative appropriation bill. All the amend
ments on which a separate vote was
not asked were agreed to in hulk. The sec
tion transferring the Indian bureau to the war
for the subsistence of the Apache Indian*
Arizona. After discussion the Dili pawed.
The house then went into cogjjjiittce of the
the prl-
, „ inlior of
hills of n private character, tho house ad
journed.
In thohmiHC, on tho 20th, Mr. Morri
son introduced a hill In relation to tho stor
age *f fermented liquors. Mr. Harris called
up tho contested election ouso of Lemoine
vs. Biirwoll, from the third oonsrCMiotial (Ih-
triet of Illinois. Mr. Brown (Kan.) spoke in
support of the claims of Mr. Earwell as a sit
ting member. Mr. Thompson followed, sup
porting the majority, and Mr. Baker, of In
diana, advocated tho minority side, when
the matter went over without not ion, and the,
house soon aftor adjourned.
In tho house, on the tat, under oal-I
of states to-day hills were Introduced and
referred relating to the punishment of wit
nesses adjudged in contempt by either house
of congress, and to repeal the law which re
quires the speaker to certify tho ease of a re
cusant. witness to the district attorney for
uriiuituil prosecution. Mr. Clark (Mo.)moved
to suspend the rules and to make in order,
to offer an amendment to the postoflicc ap
propriation hill to repeal the legislation of
last session in regard t« third-class mail mat
ter. Agreed to. Mr. Holman moved to sus
pend (lie rules and pass tho hill to repeal so
niuoh of tho resumption net ns authorizes
tho redemption and cancellation of United
States notes and the sale of United States
bonds for the iiocnmptlshmcnt of thill pur
pose. Rejected—yeas 115, nays 111, not two-
thirds in the affirmative. Tim speaker an
nounced the appointment of a select eomniit-
burn, Now, Vance (Ohio), StepheiiHon, .las.
B- Reilly ( I’m). Foster. Crano anil Darrell.
The speaker asked mid obtained leave ofnh-
sciioe mi account of personal Illness for not
exceeding 10 days, and appointed Mr. Cox
speaker pro tom. lie then in an earnest
manner expressed his thanks to tho house
for its long continued kindness and indul
gence toward him. The house adjourned.
In the hotiHO, on the 2nd., Mr. Wells
(Mo.), from the committee of appropriations,
-ported a hill appropriating $111,000 for the
maintenance of lightH on llm Mississippi,
and Missouri rivers. 1’iiHscd. The res-
minimi nf censure of Mr. John Young Brown,
nf Kentucky, in the last house was rescinded
and expunged, ami the contested election
ease of Lemoyuo vs. Earwell was taken up,
the report of thu eomuiittoo lining that Ear-
well, Hitting as a member, is not entitled to
his seat, and that Lomoyno, contestant, is.
Aftor a discussion the ease went over until
to morrow. Mr. Bayne, from the committee
mi blinking and currency, reported a hill
authorizing tho secretary of tho treasury,
under such limits and regulations as will
best secure a jiiHl and fair ilist lluitioil of
silver coin throughout the country, may is
sue llm silver coin now in the treasury to nn
amount not exceeding $10,000,000’ in ex
change for no equal amount of legnl tcudci
notes, and providing Hint the notes received
and exchanged shall lie reissued only on re
tirement and destruction of n like stun of
fractional currency received at tho treasury
in payment of dues to the United States,and
that such fractional ciirrcnoy, when so sub
stituted, shall lie destroyed anil lurid as a part
of the sinking funds iih provided in the
of 17th of April, 1870. Mr. Ilnlimiu s
provl
legal tender notes should not lie reissued
Mr. Blount ohieeted to Ihe consideration of
the hill, and the house adjourned
In tho hotiHO, oil tho 3rd, llm hill
passed transferring sixteen thousand dollars
to the iiiiiliilcuiinco of tlio lighthouse servien
outlie Mississippi,.Ohio, and Missouri riv
ers. In (he house, the Illinois contested
election was taken up, and its discussion re
sulted in unseating Earwell, the silting mem
ber, and the seating of Leinoyue, the con
testant. Tho house spent the remainder of
the session in committee of the whole oil the
postoflicc appropriation hill. Adjourned.
Ill tho house, oil the -lilt, tho house
went into committee of the whole oil tlit!
postollicQ appropriation hill, Mr. Springer in
llm uhalr. Mr. Vniieu (N. C.), addressed the
committee nil the subject of fraternity, and
pointed mil certain tilings which lie believed
would greatly lend to create a better feeling
in the south. Olio of these was to hIoii the
partisan appeals that wore indulged in hy
northern repilhlioniis; another was to help
to build up the waste places of the south ;
another to go ns far as possible in the pay
ment of claims to the Hoiilliern people for
services rendered the United Stales in tho
war. Among llieao claims was that of mail
contractors for services prior to 18(11. The
committee rose, mid oil motion of Mr. Gib-
eon, the hill missed appropriating $1)000 for
the expense o( the committee to investigate
federal offices in Louisiana. A resolution
was plumed aeeeiiting an invitation to nttend
thi! opening of tiie centennial exposition, mid
adjourning tlm house from Tuesday, the Dili,
to Friday, the 12th. Mr. Blaine oilercd a
resolution directing tho committee on Wiivh
and Means to consider at once some measure
for the relief of the country from threatened
scarcity of fractional currency. Accepted.
The message from the president declining to
-d with cool disdain on the
ratle aide, and with evideiitoiiloyiiient
n side. Mr. Itniidiili moved
that it he’referred to the judiciary eomiiiittre
lIn- rcpuhlici
t it he refi
and printed.
ordered. Mr. MncDongnl
then oflered a resolution instructing the se
lect committee fur the investigation of feder
al offices in Isniisiiiiia to make a fall and
complete investigation of the eireiiiiiNtaiiee
iling the assassination of M. II. Twitch-
I David King,on Red river, Louisiana,
whether the cause
particularly as to whether the cause was or
w as not of a political character. Accepted,
and the house adjourned.
In the house, on the 5th, a resolution
was adopted appropriating $-1500 forscciiring
better ventilation of the ball of the house of
representatives. Mr. Blount, from the ap
propriation committee, reported Hit! naval
appropriation hill, which was made the spe
cial order for Monday next. After the pas
sage of a large number of private bills the
house adjourned.
RUSSIANS AND GERMANS.
l*rol»nl»le l(«-*tilta In <'n*c or u t'.nro|M-nn
Wnr.
In the event of a European war, which
seems imminent now. it will lx; interest
ing to know something alsmt the men
who are at the head of the Russian em
pire—the great power which will place
in the field the largest army ever known
in the history of warfare. Emperor
Alexander, who has never been a strong
man, is growing weaker as he grows
older; and, although he is now but fifty-
eight years of age, he haa liceome well-
nigh senile. The recent reports
intended abdication in bis son's favor
probably bad their origin more in the
wishes of the people than in the desires
of the emperor himself, for absolute sov
ereignty is not the kind of bauble that
even a weak man would care to throw
away. Alexander has always been an
intense admirer of his uncle, the Ger
man emperor, and him been more or less
subject to German influence. All tie
best posts in the Russian service aro filled
by Germans, even to the plucc of the
commander of the great Russian army < f
conquest in tho oust, whicli in filled by
Kuuflnmnn. The Russian people
have no fondness for the Germans, and
I bis preference for their old-time enemies
fills them with disgust. The czar's phys
ical unsound ness Isas conspicuous ns was
his father's extraordinary bodily vigor,
and this fact places him at a disadvan
tage ftlrtong so hardy ti race us the Rus
sians But his son and heir, the cznro-
witz, supplies in his character, person
nml opinions many of the deficiencies of
his imperial father. Ilo hates the Ger-
numu ns intensely as Ids father loves them,
is intimately associated with the nntl-
Gorninn feeling of the country, nml is
haughty and inqieriouH where his father
is weak and complaisant. It is the old
story of an heir-njqmrcnt allying himself
with a powerful opposition to gain popu
larity; and it Is pretty tolerably certain
that tho czarowitz is more |Hipuhir to-day
limn the emperor. In tho event, there
fore, of a general European war it ta not
unlikely tluit influence would he brought
to hear which will procure the abdica
tion of Alexander II., and the succession
of tho young Nicholas to tho throne.
Another convenient fit of sickness on tho
old man's part will settle tho matter
without the necessity of going to the
trouble of poisoning him oil, as wiuj done
with another czar when considerations
of state demanded Iih removal.
The I,anil llo Loft Behind Him.
Dom Pedro, next to tho emperor of all
tho RusshuiL’, rules over the largest con
tiguous territory under one government
tho globe. Official roporta give Him
i of 4,801,394 square miles, more or
less. Itsgrealest length is 2,(100 miles,
and its greatest breadth is 2,470. To go
all over it in an ordinary lifetime one
would need to travel ns fast as its emperor
It iih boon doing while in this country. It
is divided into twenty jirovineoa nml one
independent municipality, each of which
has a local capital.
The empire claims a imputation of 11,-
780,000, but some authorities claim that
it does not contain moro than 7,000,000
people of all races. The whites number
about ono-tblrd of Llm entire population,
and aro chiefly of Portuguese descent.
In tlm seaboard cl*lea thorn are many
French, Germans and English, most of
whom a reengaged in trade. Nearly ouo-
third of tho inhahitantu are Indians.
They represent all degrees of civilization,
and no civilization worth speaking of.
Some of the interior tribes are catmihals.
They practice jerking the meat obtained
from enemies’ taxlics and storing it up
for a rainy day. In Huh respect they
show more foresight and thrift Ilian the
natives of the Gatmibul Islands. Most of
tho Indians, however, are very quiet and
friendly. They subsist for the most part
on game and wild fruits. They requiro
little byway of houses. Their fiivorito
clothing Ih red paint. Thy country com
Iji Ins nearly J, out), 001) negroes. Tho- ro-
iiiaindor of tho imputation consists of
mixed races. Some of the races aro very
decidedly mixed, having thu hloodof ne
groes, Indians and whiles in their veins.
Since Brazil was discovered, in tho
year 1300, and settlements were com
menced shortly afterward, it seems some
what reniarkalile thut it has not a larger
white population. This may he ex
plained by tho fact that tho country was
long tributary to Poriugul, which did not
contain inlmhitants enough to people so
vast, a country. During tho past twenty
years Brazil Inis made strenuous exer
tions to promt ro settlers from foreign
countries. 'They have not only been of
fered laud without cost, hut in some in
stances have Jmd half of their passage
money paid. The < ioniums have availed
themselves of theso liberal oilers to the
greatest extent of any people. Accord
ing to official reports t here are fifty colo
nics in the empire containing on an aver
ager 1,000 persons each. At tho close of
our civil war oujte a number of confed
erates removed to Brazil. As a rule, tho
foreign settlers do not tako kindly to tl
country. Quite likely this is owing to
tlm circunistuncc that soil, climate, pro
ductions, tangling* and institutions of
Brazil aro very unlike those of the coun
tries from which settlers have been ob
tained. Considerable time is required
for foreigners to accommodate themselves
to tlm now order of things.
All intelligent travelers who have
Rod Brazil speak in tho most glowing
terms of tho country. Prof. Agassiz r
garded it us tho most productive and i
foresting country on the glolw, and the
one in which it is llm easiest to obtain a
livelihood. Some who have sailed up
the Amazon declare that a vessel can la*
loaded with Brazil mils at an expense of
only a few cents per Inishel. These con
stitute a valuable article of commerce,
while the oil extracted from them is very
desirable. All the. tropical fruits are pro
duced in Brazil almost without cultiva
tion. The soil in many parts of the
country will produce twenty successive
crons, of cotton, tolmcco, or sugar cane,
without tlm application of manure. No
country in the world approaches the land
of Dom Pedro In tlm variety of its forest
productions. Prof. Agassiz slates that
Jm saw 117 different kinds of valuable
woods that were cut from a piece of land
not half a mile square. They represented
almost every variety of color, and many
of them were cajiahlc of receiving a high
polish. One tree furnishes wax that is
used for caudles; another a pith which is
used for food ; and still another yields a
juice which is used in tho place of intox
icating limior. There ta a single variety
of palm from which the natives' obtain
food, drink, clothing, bedding, cordage,
fishing-tackle, medicine and the materTui
they maiiiifaelure into dwellings, wca-
nons, harpoons and musical instruments
Doubtless the day is not distant when
tho valuable woods of Brazil will he used
for various useful and ornamental ptir-
|kis'*h. Brazil is not only a ‘‘wood'll
country,” hut a country that produces
the most beautiful woods in the world.
If one docs not want to cut wood that
is nearly as hard as ivory, with a tropical
Min exactly overhead, there are other
things he can busy himself about For
instance, he may shovel up diamonds, or
rake together sapphires, emeralds and
rubies Mo can also quarry limestone
that is so sonorous that it makes good
church hells. So, too, he limy engage in
loading carts with honey, some sweet,
and some sour, which is collected by bees
that have no stings, but which work all
the year long. In short, if any one
wants to go south and grow up with a
good country, let him make the acquittal
mice of Dom Pedro and uceompany him
home.—Chicago Times.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
"Now,” said flic professor, as he grew
animated in the discussion, "all matter
itantly changes. 1 have changed
since taking my sent here. Every single
moment in mv tauly are tens of thou
sands of blood corpuscles smashed to
pieces and forever destroyed.” Senior
in the hack seat (in a voice expressive of
deep wonder)—" Gosh I”
A pom Cobh fellow was dining with a
country family, when the lady of tho
o desired the servant to take away
the dish containing the fowl, which word
sta> pronounced fool ns is not uncommon
in Scotlnnd. " I presume, madam, you
mean fowl,” said the prig, in a reprov
ing tone. " Very well," wild tho lady, a
little nettled, "he it so; take away tho
fowl and let the fool remain.”
a rtiiay ri’iti..
It hung o’er her slinuliloisdivinely,
A curl of innguifieeilt gold,
I thought iih it lay there supinely,
Of tresses tluit Gorman girls sold,
I envied the eurl so reposing,
Like sunshine or niilhient pearl,
But while I was dreamily dozing
It fell with a quivering whirl—
And that eurl—ah! my dream was then
It lays there aghast on the floor,
While its owner in Ignorance wended,
’Mid silence, her steps to the door!
They were sitting together, he and
she, and he was arduously thinking what
to say. Finally ho burst out with, " In
this (and of noble achievements and un
dying glory, why ta it. that women do
not come more to the front? Why ta it
that they do not climb the ladder of
fame?” "I suppose,” said she, putting
her finger in her mouth, "it’s all on ac
count of their pull-backs.”
Ll KH everywhere! The air is crowded
with birds—ueiiutiful, tender, intelligent
birds, to which lifo is a song and a (hull
ing anxiety, tho anxiety ol love. The
air is swarming with insects—those liltlo
animated miracles. The waters are peo
pled with innumerable forms, from tho
animalcule, so thatono hundred and filly
millions of them would not weigh a
grain, to the whale so largo that if scums
an island us it sleeps upon tho waves.—
G. A. Hula.
Opt west, a short while since, a sub
scriber paid a year’s subscription to a
weekly paper consisting of a single sheet,
by sending tho proprietor tun cents in
cuppni change, a (uilihushcl of peas and
a piece of pork, whereupon the editor of
Urn paper canio out in the next issue
with a leader on the resources of this
great country, and the renewed activity
and prevailing prosperity among tho
"horny handed” sons of toil.
I'AHTINU.
"Ho far-rsn far!” Nay, sweet I nor distant
lands.
Nor breadth of waters can avail to liar
My lave from then. Alas! ’Ito e.vcr far,
To yonrnJnxr hourta, Um aumJliuH. sjxiuu (lint
stands
Beyond thu compass of outstretching hands ;
Darling, farewell I With tearful eyes I go,
Unknowing when the glad return slinll he;
But I will think—to mitigate my woo—
Mow loving souls of time and tide lire free;
And oft, to greet thee, dearest, mine I know,
Exultant, will o’urlcnp the sundering sea!
—Ncriburr't fnr May.
Noui.khhr Oblige. — Jntorlooutor--
“ Who’s that showy woman who talks
and laughs so loud, and digs people in
the ribs?” Interlocutrix—"On, that’s
the duchess of Bays water; slie was a
Lady Gwendolen Beaumnnoir, you
know I” Interlocutor (with warmth)—
"Alii to he sure! That accounts for
her high bred ease, her aristocratic sim
plicity of manner, her natural and
stralgnt-forwnrd—” Interlocutrix (put
ting up her eye glass)— 1 " By the hy,par
don me I 1 have unintentionally misin
formed you; it’s Alra. Judkins; slio’s
the widow of an alderman, and her
father was a cheesemonger in the New
Cut I” Interlocutor—" Dear inn !—ah !
hum !—er— hum!—Ini!— That quite
alters tho easel Sho ta very vulgar, I
must say—awful I” N. IL—It was the
duchess, after all.—Punch.
J, ItIUKCTKI) I’OBM.
fur away in thu wild western prairie
nobody is living there,
away in tlm eastern Sahara
nobody is living (bore,
except n few wandering travelers
traveling lieru and there,
far away on thu western pad lie
nobody is living there ;
far away on thu eastern atlnnliu
nobody is living there
uxeeptii few wandering seamen
sailing lieru and there,
away on the border of northern arctic
nobody is living there,
oil the border of southern antarctic
nobody is living there
except a few cold frozen trappers
trapping here and there.
TllK Ht. Ismis Republican mentions
some of the troubles that, will follow the
now money : " When a man walks much
the. inside of Ills legs will ta) chafed raw.
When less than a dollar is to go by mail
it will liavo to he converted first into
[MistHgo stumps. When yon run for a
car money will fly out of your nocketa
at every jump. When you toll your
wife tjiat you have no money she will
say that you lie, for she heard it jingle.
It will ta) difficult to pav a man a quar
ter hy mistake for a half When you aro
in a hurry, the storekeeper will liavo to
weigh the coin in Ills hand and sound it
twenty-five times on the coil liter before
he can determine whether it is good.
The baby will swallow a dime a day. A
boy with a quarter will lose it in a crack
in two mimilcH. from which no amount
of coaxing with forks and chips can re
cover it. Sleepy men will put buttons
arid lozenges into contribution taixes as
of yore.” ________________
FAii.onKOF Eahtkbn Cotton Mi llh.
The heaviest mill failures that western
Massachusetts has yet seen, arc that ol
Harvey, Arnold A Co., of the North
Attains print works, shutting up their
mill and those of Gallop. Houghton A
Smith and E M Arnold A Co.,at North
Adams, the Willinmstown manufactur-
ingcompany,at Willlamstown, the North
I’ownal manufacturing company, at
Pownnl, Vermont, and tho Arnoldsvillo
mill at South Adams; a total » f -ix
mills, with aggregate liabilities ol p o!«i~
lily over $1,000,000. The assets arc in
most unsalable property, costing proba
bly $1,500,000. The nulls ran in all over
1.000 looms on print goods. Eight hun
dred people tire thrown otiV of employ
ment.